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The internal document confirms that a joint venture Class B car specially strengthens the A-pillar. It is reported that a mainstream joint venture car company is upgrading one of its factories to further improve car safety performance, especially the "A-pillar" parts. And this factory put into production of a B-class model, has encountered a crash assessment A-pillar broken incident caused a huge storm of public opinion.

According to the documents exposed by the media online car market, the Nanjing branch of the car company is carrying out an upgrading project of internal technical transformation, which plans to invest 242.7 million yuan to optimize production, improve car safety performance, and enhance market competitiveness at the same time.

The content of the project shows that the transformation and upgrading is mainly related to the functional upgrading of some key parts of the existing models, and the corresponding production lines of the existing models are upgraded through the purchase of new moulds and welders.

For example, the document shows that the factory will make adaptive adjustments to the left and right front of the vehicle connecting the roof and the front cabin. And the part of this connection is what we call the vehicle "A-pillar".

It is understood that this factory mainly produces a mainstream joint venture B-class car (including fuel version and plug-in mixed version), as well as a variety of products. This B-class car "fell off the altar" in the evaluation of domestic collision assessment agencies, and the A-pillar was seriously bent in the 25% offset collision, while the driver's main airbag was seriously offset, resulting in a poor final rating. So far, the car is also the worst safety model of the same level evaluated by the agency.

Under the shadow of the collision door, the market performance of the joint venture Class B car was also affected. According to the data, sales of the car in October were 13717, down 35.6% from a year earlier, down 26.1% from January to October to 116931.

Under the influence of a series of disturbances, the joint venture car company also fell into the predicament of declining sales for 10 months in a row. According to an official report, the joint venture sold 155000 new cars in October, down 8.01 per cent from a year earlier, down 8.01 per cent from January to October, or 24 per cent from a year earlier, far more than the market average.

The relevant person in charge of the joint venture car company said to the outside world that because the two brands are making product restructuring this year, the decline will be greater than that of the overall market, but it is normal that this will happen after the product structure adjustment, and will be able to return to the normal level next year.

Perhaps, to enhance the function of some key parts of a certain model is also part of the product structure adjustment. Official documents revealed that the move will enhance the competitiveness of the market and, to some extent, a measure to deal with the decline in sales.

The new model has been significantly strengthened in some parts, and officials have deliberately improved its safety performance, but on the other hand, for old car owners, it may also be a "blow" and can only endure the problem of insufficient crash safety performance. Some netizens mentioned, "seek the shadow of the old car owners, as well as the preservation rate."

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